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Monument details

Summary

14th century timber framed house with alterations Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1300 to 1987

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1300 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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(TQ 7048) Burnt House (NAT). (1) Burnt Oak. Grade II* 14th century timber framed house with alterations(for full description see list). (2-3)

Description from record TQ 74 NW 167:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
YALDING BENOVER ROAD TQ 74 NW (South-west side) 4/65 Burnt Oak (formerly listed as 23-5-67 The Burnt House) GV II*
House. C14, with late C16 or early C17 alterations. Left end rebuilt in 1930's. Timber framed, with rendered infilling pricked in a rectangular pattern. Ground floor of right hall bay red brick in header bond. Thatched roof. 4 timber-framed bays; quasi-aisled hall of 2 timber-framed bays, with probably integral storeyed end bay to right (north). Front aisle narrowed, and slightly increased in height, at a later date (possibly late C16 or early C17). Storeyed left end bay and most of the left hall bay rebuilt (after fire?) in 1930's. 1 1/2 storeys. Gable-end jetties on solid-spandrel brackets. Broadly-spaced studding. Higher midrail to left of porch. Arch brace to ground floor of right end bay, and pair to ground floor of right gable end. Roof half-hipped to left, three-quarters hipped to right. Eaves slightly lower to rear. Brick ridge stack to former left hall bay. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows; one three-light leaded eaves dormer with thatched gabled roof to right hall bay, and one small two-light mullioned window with cill pegged between aisle wall-post and stud, to left end of storeyed right end bay. Three leaded ground-floor windows; one two-light to left end, one four- light to right hall bay, and one two-light towards centre of right end bay. Diamond mullion windows to right gable end; one six-light with central stud to first floor and one three-light to ground floor. Ribbed door in C20 timber-framed and rendered porch with half-hipped thatched roof, under stack. Interior: exposed framing. Base-cruck central truss. Unjointed base-cruck blade to rear, terminating in cambered, chamfered tie-beam and morticed for large arch brace to tie-beam. Front end of tie-beam lies under the arcade plate (reversed assembly) and is supported on late C16 or early C17? jowled post, which is also arch-braced to the tie-beam. The arcade plates are chamfered, and continue to right-gable end, carried on arcade posts with shaped jowls at right end of hall. At gable end, rear arcade plate is supported on an unjointed upper-cruck blade (morticed at base to jetty bressumer) Front arcade plate supported on a (late C16 or early C17?) upper-cruck blade which is jointed ata point higher than curve in rear blade (to take heightened aisle wall plate). Rear arcade plate morticed for arch brace to right hall bay. Front arcade plate continues short distance into former left end bay, where it appears to be of lighter scantling. Edge-halved scarf joint with three circular soffit keys or pegs, in front and rear arcade plates to right of arcade posts. Broad, close-set axial joists to right end bay on ground floor, tenoned into cross beam at left end of bay. The crossbeam is tenoned between the rear and (late C16 or early C17?) front aisle wall-posts which are (unusually) set immediately to right of arcade posts. Stair trimmer to rear right corner of bay. Front arcade post chamfered front and rear, on hall side only, and grooved for boarded infilling. Front aisle tie-beam also has grooved soffit. Pegs for cross beam between arcade posts. Arch- braced first-floor partition above. Window cill to rear of right hall bay, tenoned between base-cruck blade and aisle wall-post. (Shutter?) groove in soffit of aisle wall-plate above it. Inserted floor to right hall bay, with heavily chamfered axial beam morticed into similar cross beam between base-cruck blade and front central-truss post. Bevelled joists. Brick fireplace with wooden bressumer. Front ground-floor window of right end bay morticed for three-light diamond mullion window with head and jambs grooved for (less usual) vertically-sliding shutter. Dormer window cuts through arcade plate and is morticed for four-light window with moulded or rectangular mullions and diamond subsidiary mullions. Roof not inspected. Comparatively few base-chuck trusses have so far been noted in Kent. See also Benover Road, Nightingale Farmhouse. (R.C.H.M. unpublished report, 1986). Listing NGR: TQ7011348684 (5)

Archive material (6)

<1> OS 1:10000 1971 (OS Card Reference). SKE48156.

<2> Bldgs of Eng-West Kent & the Weald 1980 622 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38168.

<3> DOE (HHR) District of Maidstone Kent 14 October 1987 48-49 (OS Card Reference). SKE40499.

<4> RCHM unpublished report 1986 (OS Card Reference). SKE48974.

<5> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<6> Historic England, Archive material associated with Burnt Oak, Benover, Listed Building (Archive). SKE53945.

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